I am trying to run a command once a day, but my machine is not always on. anacron says it's meant for such purposes, but I prefer to use the Gnome Scheduled Tasks GUI program.
If I schedule a task to ...

A small Ubuntu 13.04 virtual machine instance I run in a cloud environment regularly becomes slow/unresponsive because of a proces called check-new-release. Is there any way to disable this process ...

I have a desktop that has some valuable personal and financial records, photos, etc. I installed a second drive formatted ext3 called 'internalbackup'. I've been using a variety of backup programs, ...

I had recently installed gnome-schedule 2.1.1-4 onto my ubuntu 12.10 so that i may be able to schedule a recurrent shutdown on my laptop everyday at 1:55 pm.
After a few days when i didn't need the ...

I want to run a command/shell script say script.sh from 1AM to 2AM per minute. After observing that crontab can't work it out 'per sec' I had to go with 'per min'.
Basically, My server.sh file takes ...

From the man pages it appears both do basically the same thing, why have both running on the system at the same time? From the wording in the man pages it looks like cron will repeatedly run programs ...

Is it possible to cause Ubuntu to resume from standby or sleep mode to run a scheduled task like at job/crontab? (hibernation seems to be ruled out in another question)
Can a script be written that:
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I am new to Ubuntu and I do not have alot of experience with Linux/Unix, so please bear with me while I try to get through this.
I have a camera system that records footage and takes screen shots and ...

I'd like to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 but my ISP has a data-cap, limiting the amount I can download. Thankfully, traffic between 2am and 8am doesn't count towards this cap, but I'm seldom awake at ...

I'm using a script called Responser which sends email when any of the my sites are down/slow. I just wanted to check if it's sending the mail only if the sites are really down or slow(as I checked it ...

I wanted to know how to automatically visit a website in the background when Ubuntu loads. As far as I know w3m is for visiting web site from the console. That is why I am writing following command in ...

I have a script that I would like to run daily. I set it up in gnome-schedule to run every day at 00:00, and I'm wondering whether it will run on startup if my computer was not turned on at 00:00. If ...